Essential Steps for Getting a Merchant Account

The following is a guest post by Nisha Sandhu. A merchant account is a necessary business service for a seller who wants to accept electronic transactions. If you want to set up an online business, you will probably need to accept payments electronically, and this is how you can do that. It can all be a bit confusing though; there is a lot to learn. So here’s a quick guide to setting up a merchant... read more

How To Accept Payments For Downloadable Digital Goods

You’ve decided to sell something. Maybe it’s an ebook or a script or some other downloadable product. Maybe you wrote or programmed the product yourself. Maybe you paid for the rights to sell something someone else programmed or wrote. In any case, you have a product to sell. Now how do you take payment and deliver the goods? The first time I sold a digital product, I signed up with... read more